⚡ SwiftList

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SwiftList is an ultra-lightweight, high-performance, extensible global search and productivity launcher for Windows, built on .NET 10 (WPF). It's a modern, open-source alternative to Everything and Listary — indexing local drives via the NTFS USN Journal and MFT for near-instant, low-resource search.

📖 Full documentation, User Manual & Developer Manual

Highlights

• Millisecond indexing — reads the NTFS USN Journal/MFT directly instead of walking directories; a low-footprint background service keeps the index in sync in real time.
• FZF-style fuzzy search — multi-keyword fuzzy matching with prefix/suffix/exact/exclude operators, plus pinyin aliasing for Chinese filenames.
• Three ways to search — a quick popup window, a full main window, and an inline bar that docks directly into File Explorer or native file dialogs.
• QuickLook preview, a right-click-style actions menu, and hotkeys that are all rebindable.
• Open plugin SDK — extend search providers, aliases, context-menu actions, result columns, previews, and themes.
• Process isolation — a SYSTEM-level indexing service kept separate from the per-user app UI.

See the User Manual for search syntax, every hotkey, and every settings option; the Developer Manual for architecture and the plugin SDK reference.

Download

Grab the latest release from the homepage or directly:

• Installer (SwiftList-Setup.exe) — recommended, supports the background service.
• Portable (SwiftList-Portable.zip) — no install, unzip and run.

Building from Source

Requirements: Windows 10/11, .NET 10 SDK, Visual Studio 2022 or JetBrains Rider, and Inno Setup if you want to build the installer.

• build_and_run.bat — rebuilds App/Core/Service/plugins and relaunches everything locally.
• make.bat — produces a Release build plus dist/SwiftList-Setup.exe and dist/SwiftList-Portable.zip.

See the Developer Manual for the full architecture and plugin SDK.

🎁 Support & Donation

If SwiftList has been useful to you, thank you for considering a donation!

• USDT (TRC20): TNDh3husX1trDW2ZPm4ZZYdoCoCRCZQXn5

License

MIT License.